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El Djouf (Arabic: الجوف) is a desert, an arid natural region of sand dunes and rock salt which covers northeastern Mauritania and part of northwestern Mali. [1] El Djouf is a part of the Sahara Desert in the north.
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In 1877 the Scottish entrepreneur and abolitionist Donald Mackenzie was the first to propose the creation of a Sahara Sea. Mackenzie's idea was to cut a channel from one of the sand-barred lagoons north of Cape Juby, south to a large plain which Arab traders had identified to him as El Djouf.
Basins of Africa — major basin geologic formations and watershed landforms of Africa. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Approximately three-fourths of Mauritania is desert or semidesert. As a result of extended, severe drought, the desert has been expanding since the mid-1960s. The plateaus gradually descend toward the northeast to the barren El Djouf, or "Empty Quarter," a vast region of large sand dunes that merges into the Sahara Desert. To the west, between ...
The Tanzania Craton forms the highest part of the East African Plateau. [2] The craton is surrounded by Proterozoic mobile belts of various ages and grades of metamorphism. . These include the Ubendian, Usagaran, Karagwe-Ankolean and Bukoban syst
The Teffedest Range is about 120 km long in a north-south direction. Unlike the rest of the Hoggar Mountains, which are composed mainly of dark volcanic rock, the Teffedest is composed of pale granite.
Southern Africa showing location of Zimbabwe Craton. The Zimbabwe Craton is an area in Southern Africa of ancient continental crust, being a part of the ancient continent of Western Gondwana, with rocks dating back to the early Archean Eon, possibly as early as 3.46 billion years ago (). [1]